The Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation is an Australian non-profit organisation, which is seeking your help to combat cervical cancer and save as many lives as possible of the quarter of a million women around the world who die of cervical cancer every year.
In Australia, we aim to raise awareness about cervical cancer and the importance of prevention and support for sufferers who are often only in their 20’s or 30’s. And in developing countries like Nepal and Bhutan, we are making the Australian-invented, life-saving, cervical cancer vaccine available free to women who have little or no other access to medical treatments.
The need is Enormous. With your help, the solution is simple……… Educate, Vaccinate, Eliminate.
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Amongst our objectives are:
- Public education and awareness about cervical cancer and its prevention and support for women and families in Australia and in developing countries.
- Providing cervical cancer vaccine free to women without access to the vaccine and addressing women’s health issues, in developing countries like Nepal & Bhutan.
2006 Australian of the Year, Professor Ian Frazer developed the HPV cervical cancer vaccine which is now available to prevent over 70% of cases of this deadly disease. We ask you, as Australians to help share this wonderful Australian innovation with the world.
Victims can be often be young women in their 20s or 30s. We can help eliminate cervical cancer by giving this vaccination free to women in Nepal and Bhutan who would other wise never have access to it.
Worldwide – cervical cancer kills more than 250,000 women every year, 90% of those women live in developing countries. The female population in Nepal totals 14 million and cervical cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in women between the ages of 30 and 60. Screening and treatment for cervical cancer is extremely limited and as a result the death rate from cervical cancer is much higher than in developed countries like Australia.